Spring 2018: Criminal Defense Clinic
Year-end Spring 2018 Criminal Defense Clinic report with 137 cases for 94 clients and the standard closing advice to graduating students.
From the Desk of Patrick S. Metze – Director, Criminal Defense Clinic
As is our custom, the students in the 2017-2018 Criminal Defense Clinic were busy all year representing real people in real cases in real time. This year, the students handled 137 cases for 94 clients. Of these cases, 49 are still pending, 39 were disposed of through some type of negotiated plea, and 49 cases were dismissed. Cases consisted of 112 misdemeanors and 25 felonies. This is an average student case load of over 13 clients per student and almost 20 cases per student, which is well in excess of the clients and cases promised in the clinic catalogue.
This column is reproduced only in brief. Read the whole thing in the Spring 2018 issue at Texas Tech Law.